The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-11-03


prevalent OF disorders. How few people
retire nt 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear
through TO d in the morningl To relieve
this disorder all narcotics, and sedatives,
and chloral, and bromide Of potassium,
and cocaine, and intoxicants are used, hut
nothing Is more important than q quiet
spirit if we would win somnolenoe. How
IL man going to sleep when he is in mind
pursuing an enemy? With what nervous
witch he will start out of dream That
new plan for cornering his foe will keep
him wide awake while the clock strikes IL,
l., p, 3, /. give you an un ailing pre-
Bcription for wakefulness: spend the even-
ing h, Il re earsiug your wrongs and the
lest way of ayenging them. Hold con-
veuliOn t rien on this subject IN your
pa lor or ice al or , o'clock. Close the
evening by writing bitter letter, express
inv your sentiments. Take rom the desk
or pigeon hole The papers in the cnse tore
fresh your m nd with your evening 8 mean
ness. Then lie down and wait for the
hle4u comes, or YOUR sleep will be a worried
quiesce and, if you take theprecoution
TO lie fiat on YOUR back frigh,ful night
mare. Why not put bound TO your ami
mosity2 Why let your foes ome into the
SanclltIes of Your dorm tory2 Why let
those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation to pieces or injured your
business, bend over your midnight pillov
nni drive from you one OF the greatest
blessings that God can oifer-sweet, re-
ireShing. invgorating sleep? Why not
fence ont your enemies by the golden lars
of the sunset? Why not stand behind the
burricnde OF evening cloud and say to
them: "Thus far and no fartherp" Many
man and many woman is having the
health of body as we'll as the health of
soul ten away By o maleyolent spirit.
h We in time of RELIGIOUS awakening had
lersOns night after night come into the in
qu ~ room and get no peace Of soul. After
a while have bluntly asked her: "Isthere
not some one against whom YOU have
hutred that you are not willing to give up?"
After q little confusion che has slightly
whiSpered, "Yes." Then / said to her:
GYou will never find peace with God as
long ms you retain that yirulence."
A boy in Sparta, having stolen fox,
kept him under his coat, and, though the
fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted
to it rather than expose his misdeed.
Many u man with smiling face has under
his iacket an animal that is gnawing away
the strength of his body and the integrity
of his soul. Better get rid Of that hidden
fox rs soon as possible. There are hum
dreds OF domestic circles where that which
most is needed is the spirit of forgiveness.
Brothers apart, and sisters apart, and par
ents and children apart Solomon says q
brother offended is harder TO be won than
strong city. Are there notenouqh sacred
memories Of your childhood 10 bring you
together2 The rabbins recount how that
Nebuchadne22ar' son had such spite
against his father that alter he was dead
he had his father burned TO ashes, and then
put the ashes into four sacks, and tied
them to four eagles necks which flew away
in opposite directions. And there are now
domestic antipathies which seem forever
10 have soattered all parental memories to
the four winds Of Heaven. How far the
eagles fly with sacred ashes! The hour OF
sundown makes to that family no practical
suggestion. Thomas Carlyle, in his
biography of Frederick the Great, says the
old King was told by his confessor he must
be at peace with his enemies if he wanted
TO enter Heaven. Then he Baid 10 his
wife. the Queen: "Write to your brother
after | am dead that Iforgiye him. " Rolotf,
the confessor, said: "Her majesty had
better write him Immediately" "No, "said
the King, latter l am dead; that will be
safer" So he let the sun Of his earthly
existence go down upon his wrath.
Again: We ought not 10 allow the sun
set before forgiveness takes place, because
we might not live to see another day. Aud
what if we shOuld be usLered into the
presence of our Maker with grudge upon
our soul? The majority of people depart
this life In the night. Between IL o'clock
p. IN. and 8 o'clock a. N. there is sOme-
thing in the atmosphere which reiaxes the
grip which the body has on the soul, and
most of the people enter the next world
through the shadows of this world. Per-
haps God may have arranged it in that way
so ns TO make the contrast the more
glorious l have seen sunshiny days in
this world that must have been almost like
the radiance Of Heaven. But as most peo-
pie leave the earth between sundown and
sunrise, they quit this world at its darkest,
and Heaven, always bright, will be the
brighter for that contrast. Out OF black
ness into irradatiop. Shall we then leap
over tie roseate bank of sunset into the
fayoute hunting ground OF disease and
death, carrying our nnimosities with us2
Who would want 10 confront his God,
against whom we have all done meaner
things than anybody has ever done against
US, carrying old grudges? How Gun we
expect his forgiveness for the greater when
we are not willing to forgive others the
lessp Napoleon was encouraged TO UNDER
take the crossing of the Alps because
Charlemagne had previously crossed them.
And all this rugged path Of forgiveness
bears the bleeding footsteps Of Him who
conquered through suffering, and we ought
10 be willing TO follow. On the night Of
our departure from this life into the next,
our one plea will have to be offered in the
presence Uf Him who las said: IF you
forgive not men their trespasses neither
will yons Heavenly Father forgive your
trespasses. What y sorry plight il We
stand there hating this one, and hating
that one, and wishing this one damage,
and wishing some one else calamity, and
we ourselves needing forgiveness for TO-, =
goo times l0,OGG obiiquities of heart and
life. When our ist honr comes, we want
it to find us all right. Iiarily anything
affects me 80 much Ia the Glcovering Of
ancient Pompeii as tho account of the
soldier who, after the city had for many
centuries been covered with the ashes and
scoriH OF Yesuvius, was found standing in
his place on guard, hand on spear and
helmet ON head. Others fed at the awful
submergement but the explorer, 1900
years after, found the body Of that brave
fellow in right position. And il will be q
grand thing if, when our last moment
comes, We are found in right position
toward God. on guard and unafrighted by
the ashes from the mountain of death. /
do not suppose that am any more of q
, coward than most people, bat declare to
you that would not dare to sleep to- night
If there were any being in all the earth
( with whom would not gladly shake hands,
lest, during the night hours, my spirit dis
missed to other realms. should. because
/, of my unforgiving spirit, be denied divine
forgiveness.
'DuU," says some woman, there is a
, horrid creature that has injured me that
rather than make up with her l would die
first" Well, sister, you may take your
choice-for one or the other it will be-